The CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP), a program of the California Institute of the Arts, links the Institute and the diverse communities of Los Angeles County through tuition-free, after-school, summer, and school-based arts programs for youth. CAP provides the youth in these communities challenging learning environments for artistic experimentation, access to higher education, and in-depth arts training in the visual, performing, literary and media arts. Through these alumni- and faculty-mentored programs, CAP provides CalArts students the opportunity to teach, to refine their artistic abilities and to redefine the role of artists, arts education, and the arts in society. Now in its 26th year, CAP serves thousands of youth in 23 community-based classes and 50 in-school classes.